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"People are sure the iOS browser is great because they never actually use it. Instead they use apps."

I agree with some of your points, but as far as I'm aware every article I've seen on the subject points to iOS devices accounting for a large majority of mobile web browsing, so clearly a lot people don't think it sucks.

My personal experience using the Galaxy Nexus default browser for the last 2 months has been:

1. A bit more overall studdering when scrolling webpages than my iPhone. Nothing dramatic, but noticeable.

2. Double tap to zoom on paragraphs of text is really hit or miss. Half the time it zooms in incorrectly cutting off the edges of the text.

3. Embedded videos on a lot of websites refuse to play and prompt me to install Flash. On iOS they just serve up the html5 version and pay.

Overall I never found the default browser to be absolutely terrible, but I didn't love it either. Chrome beta has been a big step up in the last 24hrs already and am hoping this is where Google is set to put it's energy.